As 2016 draws to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 12 prep sports. Today we look back at a highlight from the Coffee County swim teams. One of the biggest meets of the year for the Raider swimmers took place on January 29th and 30th as the high school and middle school swimmers competed in region meets at Nashville.
Thunder Radio reported on their success with the following story we published on Monday, February 1st.
The Coffee County High School swim team at Saturday’s region meet in Nashville(Photo provided)
The Coffee County Middle School and High School swim teams traveled to Nashville this weekend for the Middle Tennessee High School Swimming Association region championship meet. On Friday night, the high school swimmers hit the water in the high school region meet. Jack Beachboard had the best finish of the night with an 11th place finish in the 200 Individual Medley with a time of 2:11.99. Beachboard also posted a new personal best in the 500 free. Ryan Farless eclipsed his personal best time in the 100 butterfly by a phenomenal 7 seconds. Emma Allen recorded a new personal best in the 50 free. Anna O’Conner recorded new personal best times in the 100 butterfly as well as the 500 free. Emily Warner cut 2.5 seconds off her personal best in the 100 free and the Lady Raider 200 freestyle relay team of Emily Warner, Anna O’Conner, Emma Allen and Svetlana Miadzvedzeva trimmed 5 seconds off their previous best time.
The Coffee County MS swimmers at the region meet in Nashville with Coach Lana Ray. (Photo Provided)
The Coffee County Middle School swim team had a strong showing at the region meet on Saturday in Nashville. 8th grader Kaylee Williams led the charge for Coffee County as she finished in 7th place in the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:17.65. That finals appearance marked the first finals appearance by a middle school swimmer in a MTHSSA regional meet. In the preliminary rounds, Amber Ingleburger and William Tobitt both scored new personal bests in the 50 and 100 freestyle.
Next up for the swim team is the Tennessee Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association state meet which will be held on February 12th and 13th at the Centennial SportsPlex in Nashville. Jack Beachbord has qualified for the state meet in the 500M freestyle. Beachboard’s appearance in the state meet marks the 5th year in a row that a Coffee County swimmer has competed at the state meet. Coffee County swimming is coached by Lana Ray and she is assisted by Mike Ray.
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We continue our year in review on Friday as we will look back at prep cross country and prep tennis
